Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engines have been transferred from Viet Nam as an experiment. The gunboats move so swiftly (top speed: 40 knots) that their crews must be strapped into their stations. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who is Chief of Naval Operations, has dubbed them "triple trailers" because they are assigned to lurk behind the Soviet vessels that trail U.S. ships...
Among the penalties for remaining unmarried in the U.S. has been a disproportionately high income tax rate. Under the tax-rate schedules there seemed to lurk a sort of nagging, bureaucratized mother's voice: "When are you going to get married? Believe me, it's cheaper." In some ways, it was. For 1970, a single person with a taxable income of $12,000 will pay 25% more in taxes than married couples with the same combined income -$2,830 v. $2,260. But as part of the 1969 Tax Reform Act, in filing returns for 1971 the same...
...Laissez-Faire. Banfield has commendably deflated a certain amount of hysteria on the subject of the cities; he has shown that apocalypse does not lurk around the corner. But his scarcely disguised contempt for liberal prescriptions and his skepticism about the possibilities of reform have offended some of his fellow urbanologists who charge that he wants to return to a policy of laissez-faire. Yet his book is an honest, probing attack on a subject that is too often encumbered with tired cliches and rigidities of thought. If nothing else, Banfield has shown that there are other approaches...
...eyes, like that of an elf on a high. His face has been described as the sort that nervous mothers warn children against before they skip off to play in the Black Forest. At charades, he couldn't miss as one of those ambivalent wood cutters that lurk in the background of Grimm fairy tales...